{"title":"Books by David Burrows","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781474432405","title":"Fictioning","description":"Fictioning in art is an open-ended, experimental practice that involves performing, diagramming or assembling to create or anticipate new modes of existence. In this extensively illustrated book containing over 80 diagrams and images of artworks, David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan explore the technics of fictioning through three focal points: mythopoesis, myth-science and mythotechnesis. These relate to three specific modes of fictioning: performance fictioning, science fictioning and machine fictioning. In this way, Burrows and O'Sullivan explore how fictioning can offer us alternatives to the dominant fictions that construct our reality in an age of `post-truth' and `perception management'. Through fictioning, they look forward to the new kinds of human, part-human and non-human bodies and societies to come.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312456315253,"sku":"9781474432405","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781474432405_4a5aa185-6de3-4371-bd1c-773c14fdb0c5.jpg?v=1786020840"},{"product_id":"9781350476868","title":"The Cosmopolitical Functions of Art and Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cosmopolitical Functions of Art and Theory\u003c\/i\u003e proposes that contemporary artworks are devices that generate encounters with cosmopolitical problems and relations. \u003c\/b\u003eTo this end, the volume explores the ways in which artworks combine aesthetics (experimentation with presentation), pedagogy (constructivist modes of study) and \u003ci\u003efictioning\u003c\/i\u003e (actualization of worlds or communities) to generate social, ontological and cosmological perspectives that offer alternatives to the legacies of modernism, globalisation and colonialism and the narratives of reactionary and technological futurisms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree sections–Worlds, Devices, Communities–structure the book’s discussion of art and cosmopolitical themes that include: cosmopolitanism and cosmic orders, environmental politics and nonhuman agencies, the ontological turn in anthropology, the cosmologies of quantum mechanics, partiality and studies of blackness, and concepts of pluriversality. This study draws on the practices of a diverse group of artists including, John Akomfrah, Black Quantum Futurism, Filipa César, Libby Heaney, Lawrence Lek, Pauline Oliveros, Orphan Drift, Katrina Plamer, Lea Porsager, Patricia Reed, Rigo 23 and Larissa Sansour, which are placed in dialogue with the concepts of philosophers, geographers, scientists and anthropologists including Karen Barad, Gilles Châtelet, Stuart Hall, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, Yuk Hui, Elizabeth Povinelli, Milton Santos, Edward Soja, Eduardo Viverios de Castro and Sylvia Wynter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368702849397,"sku":"9781350476868","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350476868.jpg?v=1786034252"},{"product_id":"drawing-analogies","title":"Drawing Analogies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy exploring diagrams, diagramming and the diagrammatic across a range of disciplines and arts-led practices, this open access book addresses the gap between diagrams as a widely valued mode of visual representation and their under-examined status within arts and art education\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Informed by Charles Sanders Peirce’s understanding of a diagram as an analogy of relations, \u003ci\u003eDrawing Analogies\u003c\/i\u003e draws on its authors’ creative use of diagrams as artists, educators and arts researchers, and on fields of inquiry that bring the arts into alignment with other disciplines – most notably anthropology, critical theory, pedagogy, philosophy, psychology, semiotics and the physical and life sciences. This range of disciplines is evident in the artists and writers discussed, such as Gregory Bateson, Black Quantum Futurism, Salvador Dali, Phillipe Descola, Aristotle, Hilma af Klint, Rosalind E. Krauss, Yayoi Kusama, Louis Hjelmslev, Susanne Leeb, Jacques Lacan, Pauline Oliveros, and George Widener.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e While the authors approach diagramming as both a technical \u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003epoetic activity, their emphasis is on creative, embodied and exploratory modes of diagramming practices, which are capable of engendering new forms, thoughts and experiences. By taking an artistic approach to diagrams and diagramming, by incorporating diagramming as a method of enquiry within chapters, and by exploring their interdisciplinary and multi-perspectival potentials, \u003ci\u003eDrawing Analogies\u003c\/i\u003e proposes giving new life to the art of diagramming and widening the arena of artistic practice and creative research.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. 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